Adrian Clement

Experimental Music: Audio Explorations in Australia

UNSW Press have recently published an excellent book titled Experimental Music: Audio Explorations in Australia edited by Gail Priest, which comes with an accompanying CD. Here’s a description of the book:

Written by artists, producers and participants in alternative music-making, and including a companion CD, Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia explores the development of forms, ideas and scenes from the 1970s to the present. It brings together a wide range of musical experimentation, from post-punk, noise, appropriation, electronic dance and listening music, to free improv, computer process music, experimental radio, instrument building and audiovisual fusions. Experimental Music illustrates how these forms have influenced each other to create a fertile and diverse musical culture in Australia, and highlights why it is vital to question, experiment and break the rules.
Here you will find additional information, images, sound and video files to further augment the publication. Material will continue to be added over the following months.

Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia, will be published by UNSW Press in November 2008
RRP $29.95 – ordering information

Experimental Music: audio explorations in Australia is one of a series of books commissioned by the Music Board of the Australia Council.

If you haven’t already picked up a copy, make sure that you do.

In addition to the book, the editor is putting together a growing directory of Australian experimental music makers. If you follow this link, you’ll find my listing, with a bit of a biography, artistic statement and a link back to this blog for footage of Dimensions.

The Many Faces of Mosjoukine

And lastly, just a reminder: Brett Garten and the Chauvel Cinematheque will be hosting a presentation by film historian Barrie Pattison on the life and work of Ivan Mosjoukine tomorrow Saturday, the 20th of December at 12:00 PM. Following up from this presentation will be a rare screening of Ivan Mosjoukine’s Le Brasier Ardent (The Fiery Furnace) at 6:30 PM sharp, featuring a score which I will perform live and supervise. Make sure to come if you’re in the area.